What is primary purpose of using the Cisco SD-WAN vManage-Certificate Management API?

The primary purpose of the Cisco SD-WAN vManage Certificate Management API is to facilitate the secure deployment of vManage and the overall SD-WAN solution. By managing cryptographic certificates, the API enables secure communication between vManage, vSmart, vBond, and vEdge devices, ensuring authentication, data integrity, and encryption critical for a trusted and secure fabric.

Reporting issues to Cisco TAC is a support function handled via specific support channels and tools, not through the certificate management API.

While installing signed certificates is a key function of the API, it is a specific action that contributes to the larger goal of securely deploying vManage and the SD-WAN fabric, rather than being the overarching primary purpose itself.

The API helps generate a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) to be sent to an Enterprise Certificate Authority (CA), but it does not directly "contact" or interact with the CA itself.